1998 Quesadilla BYU's Fun Themed Tossups. Guess the theme and win a prize. Tossups 1. Gibreel Farishta protrayed this character in films six times in The Satanic Verses, and Gibreel was such a hit that female fans asked him to keep the mask on while having sex. Shortly after the character Gibreel portrayed was born, he was visited by Shani and decapitatedjust as Shani had feared. Vishnu advised Shani to replace his head with the head of the first living creature Shani came across in order to save his life. FfP, name this Hindu god, whose head was replaced with the head of Oirabath, the king of the gods and Indra's elephant. ANSWER: Ganesh 2. The United States has 110, while Canada has 22. When one in Colorado had an employees restroom with a pipe leak, all nearby neighborhoods were evacuated and pandemonium ensued. But don't worry: by 2050, at current consumption rates, their fuel supply will have become too scarce to be worth mining. And besides, no one has yet found any three-eyed fish around one. FfP, "share noble" knowledge with us by naming this device, one of which is the most famous inhabitant of Three Mile Island. ANSWER: nuclear power plant (accept equivalents) 3. In the last chapter, he is revealed to be the son of Mr. Summer, a visiting cleric, and the spinster Bridget Bilfil, even though his whole life he has believed himself to be the son of Mrs. Jenny Waters, with whom he has a brief love affair. His true love, Sophia Western, is based on the author's wife, while his foster father, Squire Alsowrthy, is named after the Eton schoolmate to whom the book is dedicated. FTP name the hero of the 1794 novel subtitled "A Foundling," by Henry Fielding. ANSWER: Tom Jones 4. One planned in Nevada will contain a 5.2-mile stretch that will cost $380 million dollars to build. The one in Sydney's Darling Harbor is award-winning, has three stations in the city, four in the harbor and has a service every four minutes. The extension proposed in Seattle would have 40 miles of track and 22 stations. FfP, name this type of mass transit, which in Disneyland replaced the Viewliner, opening in June 1959 and connecting Disneyland Hotel with Tomorrowland. ANSWER: monorail 5. A first incident started when Amelia Boynton was thrown in jail here for trying to urge local African-Americans to register to vote. Later things turned ugly as the local sheriff punched a civil rights protester in the face on national TV and 770 were arrested in an illegal march. On Sunday a group of 500 peaceful marchers were attacked and scattered by an armed posse while attempting to leave town. FTP, name this port on the Alabama River named for a heroine of Gaelic ballads, a focal point of the civil rights movement in 1965 and the eventual jumping off point for Martin Luther King Jr's, march on Montgomery. ANSWER: Selma 6. Sir Joseph Porter is expected shortly and the sailors are busily scrubbing the floor awaiting his arrival when the work starts. It turns out that one of the sailors, Ralph, is in love with the captain's daughter Josephine. With help from Deadeye Dick, the lover's plans to elope are stopped, and after a strange course of events Ralph becomes a captain in place of Corcoran who said the "damn" word and marries Josephine anyway. FTP, name the opera being described, which opened May 28, 1878, also known as "The Lass that Loved a Sailor," written by Gilbert and Sullivan. ANSWER: HMS Pinafore 7. It started simply, with a glass window in front, a heater and a thermostat. Its inventor later added walls of celotex and a tunnel at the end of a flight of stairs. At various times it included a telegraph receiver key, and a ten foot strip of light spruce on tightly stretched wires. Eventually it assumed a more familiar two-foot wide form with a lever that dispensed food pellets. FIP, name this invention which allowed far more precise study of rats than a maze and which bears the name of its inventor, a paragon of behavioral psychology. ANSWER: Skinner Box (prompt on B. F. Skinner) 8. He said, ''I'm just realizing something. A lot of people worlc overtime to buy another pair of pants when they already have four. Why do they need another pair? Pride. When I wanted something, I went after it and got it" The last thing that he went out and got was suggested to him by Wayne Gretzky, who was familiar with the career of Minnie Minoso. FfP, give the name of this 801-goal scorer, six time Hart trophy winner, 21-time all-star, and four-time Stanley Cup winner with Detroit, who quite recently became the only hockey pro to skate in six decades. ANSWER: Gordie Howe 9. It was discovered in 2 pieces by a Greek peasant and shipped to the Louvre in 1821, where it was badly received by many: Renoir called it "the big gendarme." It is named for the Aegean island where it was found, and scholars speculate that the missing portions include a depiction of the golden apple given her by Paris. FIP name the marble statue sculpted in ancient Antioch, the world's best-known armless statue. ANSWER: Venus de Milo (or Venus of Meles) 10. In his later days he was described by a co-worker as, "withdrawn, bitter and angry," and he refused many publicity opportunities and jobs offered to him. He began his career as a test pilot, later made a five-hour space walk as pilot of Gemini 12, and even walked on the moon. This was not enough for him, as he left NASA to rejoin the Air Force in 1971 because of what he called their "sad mistake." FfP, name this astronaut, who is eclipsed in fame by his Apollo 11 companion, the only one to precede him on the moon. ANSWER: Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin 11. This film won the Saturn Award for 1981's best horror film. One of its most famous lines is translated as "Although one will rise early, it won't dawn sooner," in the Spanish version, "Don't postpone something that can be done today," in the German, "He who wakes up early meets a golden day," in the Italian, and "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in the English. FIP, name the Kubrick film that tells the story of Jack, Danny, and Wendy Torrence, and their stay at the Overlook Hotel, based on a novel by Stephen King. ANSWER: The Shining 12. When he rose to the throne in 936 upon the death of his father he faced war on three fronts and numerous ducal rebellions. With the help of his brother, Bruno the Archbishop of Cologne he forged an alliance with the church that allowed him to create a unified German state and replace the hereditary dukes of Swabia, Franconia and Bavaria with friends or family members. He was equally successful in foreign policy defeating the Franks, Magyars, and Poles, with his greatest military victory coming at Lecbfield in 955, and in 962 he was crowned Emperor by the Pope. FfP, name this uniter of Germany, the only medieval German king to be styled "The Great." ANSWER: Otto I (Prompt for a number on Otto the Great). 13. Your fingernail is a 2, and so is your toenail. Though it was originally a German invention, a U.S. pre-1981 penny rates a 3. Your window glass, regardless of nationality would score somewhere around 5 and an Olympic diver would not score at all. Of course as any woman could tell you, diamond gets a perfect ten. It's not Parcheesi but rather FfP, what scale invented in 1922 by a German scientist to measure mineral hardness. ANSWER: Moh's scale. 14. He was a noted publisher who edited the St Louis Observer and the Alton Observer. He was also a popular preacher who received his training at Princeton and had strong Methodist leanings. But he is most famous for his work as an abolitionist organizing the Illinois Anti-Slavery Society. FTP, name this Reverend who became a martyr in November 1837 when he was killed by a pro-slavery mob that was trying to destroy his printing press. ANSWER: Reverend Elijah Lovejoy 15. In one unauthorized ending to this work, a cat writes of his stalking of the title character, eventually pouncing and leaving the title character in "a heap of plumage, and a little blood and gore." Supposedly inspired by the author's visit to Centre County, while staying at the Eutaw House, this poem tells the story of a student's lament over his lost love and him sort of weirding out over an animal in the house. The rhyme pattern is abcbbb where the 'b' rhymes with the eat's described "gore," "Lenore" and "nevermore." FfP, name this title animal, mascot of the NFL team that moved from Cleveland to a town that strangely also rhymes with the b from above, Baltimore. ANSWER: "The Raven" 16. Under the Franks, it began as the city of Bruges and its immediate environs, and saw later overlordship of the Austrians, Spanish, Dutch, and Belgians. However its ancient cities such as Cambrai, Arras, and Ypres are better known as battlefields than as the one time homeland of Rogier and the Van Eykes. FTP, name this region with a name that means "flooded" and whose fields name a famous John McCrae poem.